Holly Taylor

Holly Taylor is the founder and director of ArtiZen Productions, and the music director of Unity Church of Lawrence. Her professional training includes a degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music, and Board Certification in the field of Music Therapy. With improvisational roots in percussion and piano performance, she has branched out with composition, collaboration, and writing both fictional and inspirational works. Her music has touched many listeners in the performance realm as well as within the music therapy setting. Holly Taylor performs in collaboration as the eclectic world music ensemble, The Soul Thread Legion. She is currently working as a contributing songwriter and multi-instrumentalist in Folk in the Flow, Buck Bourgeois, Whole Earth Kirtan, The Rahn Ekan Trio and the jazz-funk band Sri Yantra. She strives to give a musical voice to positive, progressive change in society--locally and globally. She has made several appearances on KKFI, 90.1 Kansas City Community Radio, and at transformational festivals, churches, community gatherings and coffeehouses around the nation. Holly Taylor's music encompasses indie, world, spiritual, and folk genres, uniting a diverse audience with her musical and lyrical ingenuity. Her music takes a definitive stand on current issues, and focuses on solutions. Much of the musical soundtrack to her original musical, "Beyond the Box" was paved years before the colorful characters emerged. Her music lends light to the human condition, creating a bridge of accessibility to the Divine. "The truth illuminates as sunlight in a multifaceted jewel, bringing beauty to the world..." --from Pictures from an Obscured Vision (by HT c2005) {{{ <3 }}} Holly Taylor & The Soul Thread Legion is a vision of interwoven heart expressions upon the tapestry and journey of music, healing and celebration. ♡♡♡